AfD regional
leader Andre
Poggenburg
resigns following
anti-Turkish
speech
Andre Poggenburg sparked nationwide disgust after comparing Germans of Turkish origin as "camel
drivers." His planned resignation follows a formal censure by his party.
The far-right Alternative for Germany
(AfD) party announced Thursday that
a high-profile regional leader will resign from his post at the end of
March. Andre Poggenburg is the head
of the party in the eastern state of
Saxony-Anhalt. He prompted an outcry in mid-February after describing
people of Turkish origin in Germany
as "camel drivers" and "caraway seed
traders" in a speech to AfD supporters.

Refugee children
making a new
life in Germany
Hailing from Syria, Afghanistan
and Eastern Europe, they attend the
same integration class in their new
home. Despite different backgrounds, these high school students
all have one thing in common: motivation to succeed. "I have been in
Germany for two years. I took off
on foot, then someone gave me a
ride in their car, after that I continued by bus and train and then finally on foot again. In Austria, a
friend and I simply boarded a train
to Munich. I couldnʼt speak any
German." The events that Aziz Ahmad Noori is referring to took place
two years ago. He was 15 at the
time. He fled Afghanistan – fled violence – without his parents.Aziz is
typical of the kind of young people
enrolled inintegration coursesat
Bertha von Suttner High School.
Most have fled difficult circumstances on their own and managed
to get through it all. Aziz currently
lives in a boarding house. He feels
lucky to have the opportunity to attend school. His aim is to earn his
diploma and graduate.

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Franceʼs National Front leader
Marine Le Pen proposes rebranding
as ʼRassemblement Nationalʼ
She has tried to capitalize on a newfound visibility after her nearsuccess at the presidential election

The far-right party must transform into a "rallying point to form a
majority," Le Pen said at a party congress.
French far-right leader Marine Le
Pen on Sunday proposed renaming
the National Front (FN) party to
"Rassemblement National," which
translates as National Rally or National Union. "This name, National
Front, bears an epic and glorious history," Le Pen said during a two-day
party congress in the northern French
city of Lille, but she added that it was
a "psychological hurdle" for many in
France. The far-right leader has tried
to capitalize on its newfound visibility by rebranding the party and shaking off its troublesome history of
anti-Semitism. She said the party
was capable of governing "in the
eyes of all" and needed to transform
itself into a "rallying point to form a
majority." In order for the name
change to go ahead, a majority of
party members will have to back it in
a mail-in vote. Last year, Le Pen
made it to the run-off vote in the
French presidential election, in
which she won 34 percent of the vote
and lost out to centrist upstart Emmanuel Macron. Le Pen was re-

elected to serve as FN leader for a
third term in a postal vote, the results
of which were announced on Sunday.
She was the only candidate. Nearly
80 percent of FN members voted on
Sunday to banish the partyʼs firebrandfounder
Jean-Marie
Le
Penonce and for all. Severing ties
with Jean-Marie, Marie Le Penʼs father, was approved by party members, in addition to several new bylaws, on the second day of the FNʼs
congress in Lille. Jean-Marie, who
founded the FN in 1972, did not attend the congress. He wasexpelled
from the party in 2015for making
anti-Semitic remarks but had maintained his position as the partyʼs honorary president for life. The new bylaw does away with the position of
president for life. His multiple convictions for racism and antiSemitism have complicated efforts
by his daughter to clean up the partyʼs image in a bid to broaden its support among French votersdisillusioned with the countryʼs mainstream parties.

Donald Trump set
to sign executive
order on steel
import tariff
Hours ahead of the signing of trade
tariffs on steel imports, President
Trump has insisted he doesnʼt want a
trade war. Washington is set to soften
the blow of its new penalties with exemptions for certain countries. Top
executives from the US industrial sector will be at the White House on
Thursday afternoon when US President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Trumpʼs
main trade advisor Peter Navarro told
US TV channel Fox Business that the
new penalties would be signed off by
president in a ceremony at the Oval
Office at 3.30 p.m. local time (2030
UTC), and then take effect within 10
to 15 days. But in a sign of a softening of the billionaireʼs latest protectionist policy, Navarro confirmed
some neighboring countries would be
exempted from the duties.

Turkey jails
dozens of
journalists
A year and eight months after a failed
coup, Ankara has shown no sign of deescalating its crackdown on critical
journalists. The 25 reporters were convicted on trumped-up terror charges.
Turkey sentenced 25 journalists to
prison terms ranging from three years to
seven and half years on Thursday. The
defendants were accused of "knowingly and willingly" aiding exiled cleric
Fethullah Gulen, who has been blamed
by Ankara for the failed coup attempt in
Turkey in July 2016.

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US Nuclear Posture Review: A
bigger bang for the buck?

The United States has put countering China and Russia,
dubbed "revisionist powers," at
the center of a new national defense strategy. DW takes a look
at what that entails.
At the height of the Cold War, the
United States and the then-Soviet
Union possessed around 70,000
nuclear warheads between them
— enough to destroy or poison every square centimeter of inhabited
land on Earth several times over.
Americas US Nuclear Posture Review: A bigger bang for the buck?
The United States has put countering China and Russia, dubbed "revisionist powers," at the center of
a new national defense strategy.
DW takes a look at what that entails. At the height of the Cold
War, the United States and the
then-Soviet Union possessed
around 70,000 nuclear warheads
between them — enough to destroy or poison every square centimeter of inhabited land on Earth
several times over. Somewhat
ironically, the concept of "mutually assured destruction" (MAD),
whereby the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender, was and is
a guarantor of peace.
A record 28 French restaurants
get Michelin three-star ratings

Twenty-eight French restaurants
have been honored with the gastronomic sectorʼs most coveted rating.
Thatʼs a record number of threestar ratings for any single country
in the Michelin Red Guide.
A comeback by La Maison des Bois
mastermind Marc Veyrat (pictured) and
the emergence of Christophe Bacquieʼs
Hotel du Castellet as another culinary
force in southern France have given the
country a record for most restaurants to
hold a vaunted foodie guideʼs coveted
three-star maximum. Set for official release on Friday, Michelin France has
become the most prestigious of the publicationʼs 31 national editions and the
domestic culinary bible. Michelin has
faced criticism that its stars reward
pomp and presentation rather than
the food itself and for the guideʼs
putting restaurateurs under unbearable
scrutiny. The guide has made many a
chefʼs name; others say it has nearly
broken their wills. Veyrat — a 67-yearold who quit cooking after a skiing accident nine years ago and faced hardship
again when La Maison burned down in
2015 — told The Associated Press that
he does not mind the stress.
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Olympic champion Mo Farah
victim of ʼracial harassmentʼ at
Munich airport
Farah is seen being pushed towards the departure gates by an airport officer

Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah has released a video on
Instagram showing him being "racially" harassed by Munich airport staff.
Sir Mo Farah, the British four-time
Olympic gold medal winner, said
on Tuesday that he was the victim
of "racial harassment" while traveling through Munich airport.
Farah filmed his altercation with a
Munich airport officer on Instagram Live. The clip appears to
show the officer pushing Farah towards the departure gates. "The

Finding ancient
cities and
improving weather
forecasts with
LiDAR
Researchers discovered an old
Mayan city with the help of lightwave technology. Christoph Kiemle
from the German Aerospace Center
(DLR) explains how the method
works and how it could be used in
self-driving cars. LiDAR stands for
Light Detection and Ranging. Itʼs
similar to radar, or radiowave detection and ranging, but it works with
optical radiation rather than radio
waves. It works with light, basically.
You can use lasers to send out this
light to discover properties of the atmosphere or the Earth surface. We
typically send a laser beam down to
Earth from an airborne platform.
That beam travels through the at-

guy is touching me up like crazy.
Pure harassment. Pure, pure, harassment," Farah said in the video.
The official replies: ʼI can touch
you. Go to the gate, go to the
gate.ʼ The 34-year-old Somaliaborn runner later posted the video
on Twitter with the caption "Sad
to see racial harassment in this
day and age. 2018...!!!!"
mosphere and can measure particle
matter, aerosol in the atmosphere for
example. It can detect clouds, it
could travel down to the surface
when there are no clouds, and it
gives us profiles of atmospheric
properties. We can detect and derive
a lot of information from these measurements that help advance science.

Maldives declares
state of
emergency, former
president arrested
The president of the Maldives has ordered his predecessor arrested and
called a state of emergency. Soldiers
charged into the Supreme Court and arrested two judges after they ordered
imprisoned politicians released. Maldivian
President
Abdulla
Yameen called a state of emergency on
Monday and ordered soldiers to arrest

Indonesia debates
bill criminalizing
gay sex and any
sex outside of
marriage
Indonesiaʼs parliament speaker has
called for reforms to the criminal
code that would outlaw any sex outside of marriage, including gay sex.
Critics say the bill would also
weaken checks and balances on
democracy.
Indonesian lawmakers began debating
controversial changes to the countryʼs
criminal code on Tuesday, which critics warn would violate human rights
and undermine the countryʼs democracy. Indonesiaʼs parliament speaker
Bambang Soesatyo opened proceedings by urging lawmakers to consider
the legislation that would curb "homosexual excesses." Writing in the
Indonesian daily Koran Sindo, Soesatyo also said Tuesday that gay lifestyles in the country had spawned
"horrifying" excesses, such as murder,
HIV/AIDS and pedophilia. "If these
people actively promote their lifestyles, it will be very worrying," he
said. "We urge the state to take firm
action." While homosexuality is not
illegal in the worldʼs largest Muslim
majority country, it has long been
viewed as a bugbear to both Indonesiaʼs Islamic and secular political parties.

his 80-year-old predecessor, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, his estranged
half brother, who supported the main
political opposition. Yameen is in an
escalating legal battle with the South
Asian island nationʼs Supreme Court
after judges ordered the release of all
imprisoned opposition leaders in a surprise ruling last week. He ordered
Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and another of the Supreme Courtʼs four
judges arrested early Tuesday. Yameen
called a 15-day state of emergency,
deepening a political crisis.The emergency decree grants wide powers for
the security forces and police to make
arrests, search and seize property and
restricts freedom of assembly, officials
said.Soldiers forced their way into the
Supreme Court building and arrested
two of the tribunalʼs four justices.Police used pepper spray to disperse hundreds of protesters who had gathered
outside the court.Former President
Gayoom was charged with bribery and
attempting to overthrow the government, according to his lawyer.

59/2018 • 12 March, 2018

Turkey considers chemical castration for pedophile child abusers
Turkeyʼs justice minister has said authorities want to "reduce or eliminate" the sex drives of convicted child abusers. The idea was immediately rounded upon by rights groups as draconian.
The Turkish government said on
Tuesday that a new law would be submitted to parliament that would permit judges to order the chemical castration of child abusers. Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said the measure
is being considered "to reduce or
eliminate" the sex drives of people
convicted of sexually assaulting minors, according to the state-run
Anadolu news agency. He said the
draft law would be presented to lawmakers "within a few days." Turkeyʼs
legal system dealt with a more than
fourfold increase in child sexual

abuse cases in 2016 compared to a
decade earlier, according to justice
ministry data cited by rights groups.
Courts ruled on 21,189 cases compared to 3,778 in 2006, and more than
60 percent of suspects were convicted. Chemical castration, which involves using anaphrodisiac drugs to
reduce libido and sexual performance,
does not prevent a person from experiencing sexual urges indefinitely. The
drug is administered either by mouth
or injection, with a frequency between once a month and once every three months.

Jews who lived in Algeria during
the Vichy regime will receive compensation, said the Claims Conference. Algerian Jews were "one of
the last" groups to be recognized by
Germany, the organizationʼs vice
president told DW.
The Claims Conference Hardship Fund
on Monday announced that a new
group ofJewish Holocaust survivorswill be eligible forcompensation from
the Germany government. The group
consists of Jews who lived in Algeria
between July 1940 and November
1942. Those eligible for compensation
will receive a one-time payment of
€2,556 ($3,180), which the German
government will begin paying out in
July. "Even at this late stage, itʼs very
important both for the individuals, because it acknowledges what they went
through, and in general, because it creates a historical record which will stand
the test of time," Eric Schneider, who
serves as executive vice president of
the Claims Conference, told DW. "The
further we get away from the events, I
think thereʼs the greater possibility of
Holocaust revisionism … When the
German government takes responsibility and acknowledges the event, then it
makes it a lot harder to refute it.

Far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache is facing multiple lawsuits over a
Facebook post saying Austriaʼs public
broadcaster spreads "propaganda." His
"reform" calls have raised concerns
about the news outletʼs future. Austrian
public broadcaster ORF has taken legal
action against vice chancellorHeinzChristian Stracheafter he shared a Facebook post claiming the broadcaster and
one of its most prominent journalists
publish "lies." In a statement forwarded

to DW on Wednesday, the broadcaster
said it took the unusual step against
Strache, who also headsthe far-right
Freedom Party (FPÖ), due to libelous
and "untrue attacks on the ORF." "The
text discredited the journalistic work of
800 ORF journalists in television, radio
and online," ORF Director General
Alexander Wrabetz said in the statement. ORF is also suingFacebookfor
not removing the original post shared
by Strache, Wrabetz said.

European markets plunge at opening bell as stock market dip deepens
Global markets continue to wobble precariously. European markets took a big hit as Tuesdayʼs trading began, following
major losses across Asia and particularly in Japan. Wall Street fared no better on Monday. European markets opened on
Tuesday awash with red, with the main benchmark indices all down around 3 percent followingWall Streetʼs Monday
rout. Minutes after the bell to signal the start of trading, Germanyʼs DAX index dropped 3 percent to 12,308 points. It
was a similar story in France and the UK, whose indices opened 3 and 2.5 percent lower respectively.

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Chinese migration brings
social change to Italyʼs Alps
Home to the largest concentration
of Chinese residents in Europe, two
mountain villages have become the
unlikely setting of an integration
experiment. Giulia Saudelli and
Matteo Civillini report from northern Italy.
At midday, the fog is so thick one can
barely see the mountainside. From the
vast space that opens out below, all one
can hear are the Chinese workers
busily hitting large slabs of stone with
their chisels. The quarryʼs owner paces
around them, making sure the precious
material is handled with care. A few
meters away a truck is ready to load the
rough-cut stones, which, after a journey down a steep mountain road, will
be delivered to the workshops in the
tiny villages of Bagnolo Piemonte and
Barge. This is the daily routine in the
Infernotto Valley, in northern Italy,
home to the largest Chinese community in terms of concentration in Europe. Since the early 1990s more than
1,300 of them have settled in this remote area, making up around 10 percent of the total population. The Chinese presence is so strong that Hu has
now become the most common surname in Barge. Their arrival initiated
what can be described as a 20-yearlong migration experiment, unintentionally providing a testing ground for
integration policies in Italy and beyond. What brought them to this unlikely place is the Luserna stone. A pillar of the local economy, the ʼgrey
goldʼ — as it is known locally — is a
foliated rock featuring sheet-like layers of varying shades of color.

German metalworkers finally
secure wage agreement
Following weeks of bitter fighting,
a wage agreement for the German
metal and electrical industries has
finally been struck. Employees
were able to secure higher wages
and more flexible working hours.
A wage agreement was reached in the
early hours on Tuesday in Germanyʼs
metal and electrical industries. The
powerful IG Metall union announced
the deal initially covering workers in
the southern German state of BadenWürttemberg, but expected to be eventually implemented for a total of 3.9
million workers in the sector nationwide. According to the deal, employeesare to receive a pay hike of 4.3 percent from April this year. Additionally,
monthly one-off payments of €100
($124) were agreed for January through
March. Employers and trade union representatives also agreed on the possibility of workers reducing their hours from
35 to 28 hours per week for two years,
should they need to look after children
or care for older relatives.
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German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer pays
ʼflyingʼ visit to Mobile World Congress
Deutsche Telekom has ʼflownʼ in a special guest to showcase its broadband capabilities at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The
German telecom giant focused on its activities to advance 5G mobile
networking.

United
Kingdom waits
to see how the
post-Brexit
winds will blow
The UK is the current world leader
in offshore wind capacity. But with
the country heading for the EU exit
door, can the renewable energy
boom last? Lying unpainted on its
side, the greenish curve of a 75meter (246 feet) long wind turbine
blade bears a passing resemblance to
a whale. Itʼs twice the length of a
blue whale but at 25 tons, is much
lighter than the earthʼs largest creature. For employees at the state-ofthe-art Siemens Gamesa factory in
the port city of Hull in northern
England, another comparison is
more apt. "Four bull elephants,
thatʼs how we equate it," said Alison
Maxwell, the head of communications at the facility. Siemensʼ £160
million ($223 million/182 million
euros) plant has manufactured these
great fiberglass beasts for wind
farms in Britain since it opened at
the end of 2016 in the economically
deprived city. And itʼs a good time
to be in business.

Deutsche Telekomʼs Head of Innovation Claudia Nemat was just wrapping
up her description of the European
Aviation Network, a project that allows
passengers to use broadband thousands
of meters up in the air, when she casually invited CEO Timotheus Höttges
up on stage, claiming she had a surprise
for him. Next thing,legendary German
goalkeeper Manuel Neuerappeared on
the screen behind them. He was sitting
in a plane, live-streaming the Deutsche
Telekom press conference. "Howʼs it

going?" Höttges asked breezily. Neuer
grinned and pointed his smartphone
out the window at the clouds. The gimmick concluded a press event that was
dedicated to showcasing Deutsche
Telekomʼs advances in 5G, its new
voice assistant Magenta (meant, Nemat stressed, as an alternative, not as a
replacement to counterparts like
Alexa) and a pair of smart glasses that
could one day display a checklist for
doctors to consult before performing
surgery.

Nissan,
Dongfeng to
invest heavily in
e-cars in China

Walmart raises minimum
age for buying guns to 21

Together with its joint venture on
the ground, Japanese automaker
Nissan is to make a multi-billiondollar investment in the production of e-cars in China. Beijingʼs
e-car quota system goes into effect next year. Japanese carmaker
Nissan and its Chinese joint venture partner Dongfeng Motor
Company announced Monday
they would invest $9.5 billion
(€7.6 billion) in China to increase
annual sales by 1 million vehicles
andboost the production of electric cars. The move came as
China was rolling out new regulations to limit gas vehicles in a
bid to reduce air pollution across
the Asian nation. Authorities in
Beijing will implement a complex quota system as of 2019, requiring carmakers to produce a
minimum number of electric vehicles. They are also looking at
plans to completely ban fossil
fuel cars at a date that has yet to
be decided.

Walmart became the biggest retailer to raise the minimum gun
buying age to 21. The decision
comes on the heels of Americaʼs
largest gun storeʼs decision to raise
the age limit and to stop selling assault style rifles.
Walmart, the US retail giant, announced Wednesday that it will no
longer sell firearms and ammunition to
people younger than 21. It also said it
would remove items resembling assault-style rifles from its website. Walmart said it made the decision after the
company reviewed its firearm sales
policy in light of the mass shooting at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Florida, that killed
17 people. The teenage gunman used an
AR-15 rifle. Walmart said it took "seriously our obligation to be a responsible
seller of firearms." They also emphasized their background of "serving
sportsmen and hunters." The move
comes on the heels of Dickʼs Sporting
Goods announcement earlier in the day
that it would restrict the sale of firearms
to those under 21years old. "When we
saw what the kids were going through
and the grief of the parents and the kids
who were killed in Parkland, we felt we
needed to do something," said Dickʼs
Chairman and CEO Ed Stack on ABCʼs
"Good Morning America."

59/2018 • 12 March, 2018

China plans huge
national park for pandas
The bears are considered to be the national animal of China

The bears are considered to be the national animal of China. Their
awarding is an important diplomatic gesture and a good deal. So
that it works better with the panda offspring, the animals should get
more space.
The new national park for the unmistakable bears with black and white
fur will cover more than 27,000
square kilometres, as the state newspaper "China Daily" reported on
Thursday. It would be three times the
size of the famous Yellowstone National Park in the USA. According to
"China Daily", the project has a budget of 1.3 billion euros over the next
five years. A corresponding agreement between the State Bank of
China and the Sichuan Provincial
Government was signed on Tuesday.
The giant panda is an endangered

species and occurs in the wild only in
China. 80 percent of the approximately 1800 animals live in Sichuan,
the rest in the provinces of Shaanxi
and Gansu. Breeding successes in
captivity are extremely rare. The new
national park should enable the pandas to reproduce undisturbed.
Around 50 panda bears live in zoos
outside China. Six of them in European zoos. The Berlin Zoo pays an
annual rental fee of 900,000 euros
for the Panda couple Meng Meng
and Jiao Qing, who arrived in June
2017.

Russian accused of running spam network extradited to US
Suspected Russian hacker Pyotr
Levashov pleaded not guilty before
a US judge after being extradited
from Spain. Prosecutors claim he
ran a massive computer network
that sent out spam and installed
malicious software.
Spanish authorities have extradited to
the US a Russian man suspected of
carrying out cybercrimes using bulk
spam emails and malicious software,
US officials announced Friday. Pyotr
Levashov, a 37-year-old from St. Petersburg, pleaded not guilty to
the charges of wire and email fraud,
hacking, identity theft and conspiracy
after appearing before a federal judge
in the US state of Connecticut. He re-

mains in detention. Levashov was arrested in Aprilwhile vacationing with
his family in Barcelona. In October,
Spainʼs National Court granted the
US extradition request, rejecting a
counter-extradition request from Russia. US prosecutors say Levashov ran
the sprawling Kelihos botnet — a network involving up to 100,000 infected computers that sent spam
emails, harvested usersʼ logins and installed malicious software that intercepted bank account passwords. According to the indictment, the network
generated and distributed more than
2,500 spam emails a day and allegedly victimized thousands of people in the US.

German university hospital
defends auto firmsʼ
nitrogen dioxide test ethics
No experiments on animals or humans can take place in Germany
without a go from an authorized
ethics committee. Dr. Thomas
Kraus from Aachen University
Hospital says this was the case in
the most recent NO2 scandal.
The European Research Group on Environment and Health in the Transport
Sector (EUGT) "did not impinge in any
way on the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) research it commissioned Aachen University Hospital to do," Professor
Thomas Kraus from the hospital told
the German press agency DPA on Monday. The EUGT is a now defunct organization that was funded by German
carmakers Volkswagen, Daimler and
BMW plus partsmaker Bosch, thus
raising questions of possible conflicts
of interest. In 2013, 25 healthy volunteers were exposed to NO2 pollution for
three hours, Kraus said.

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Budapest’s
Széchenyi
Baths extend
opening
hours
When the weather is so moody,
it is so nice to plunge into a hot
pool filled with mineral-rich
thermal waters and soak away in
the soothing atmosphere.
While the outdoor pools at Budapest’s
splendid
Széchenyi
Baths are always open until
10pm, from March 1st, the indoor thermal area will also stay
open until the same time, welcoming those who would rather
enjoy the sight of snow from inside, savouring spa delights after
dark.
Housed in a stunning NeoBaroque
building,
the Széchenyi is probably the
most popular spa in Budapest,
and certainly the largest of its
kind in Europe.
While the open-air plunging area
is
most
popular,
the
Széchenyi altogether holds 11
pools within, each filled with
mineral-rich healing waters, as
well as steam cabins, saunas
and showers.
From March 1st, bathers can enjoy these convivial facilities until
as late as 10pm, while the outdoor area stays open until the
same time as usual.
Three pools inside are only
available to guests with a medical referral, but this still leaves
enough room for tranquil relaxation for everyone.

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59/2018 • 12 March, 2018

British
parliamentary
doping report
slams Wiggins,
Sky

A British parliamentary report has
sharply criticized Team Sky and
Bradley Wiggins for using permitted
medication to enhance his performance at the 2012 Tour de France.
Sky and Wiggins have rejected the
criticism. The report published on
Monday by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins, had crossed an "ethical line" by
using corticosteroids to treat a medical condition during the 2012 Tour.

Soccer captain
Davide Astori of
Fiorentina dies,
aged 31

Italian football has reacted with shock
to the death of Fiorentina captain and
defender Davide Astori. He was
found dead early on Sunday in his hotel room in Udine, where the team
was due to play a Serie A match.
Fiorentina captain and defender Davide Astori died of a sudden illness
on Sunday morning at the age of 31,
the Serie A club said, leaving Italian
football in a state of shock. Italian
media reported that Astori was found
by his team-mates in the early hours
in his hotel room in Udine, where the
team was staying ahead of an Italian
league match.
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Athletics doping:
IOC confident
over Russia
doping reform
plans

Roger Federer, Serena
Williams claim 2018
Laureus sports awards

International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach believes
Russia will resolve its doping issues and field athletes at next
yearʼs Rio Games.
Russia was provisionally suspendedfrom world athletics after an independent
World
Anti-Doping
Agency (Wada) report alleged
"state-sponsored doping". Bach met
with his Russian Olympic Committee counterpart Alexander Zhukov
to discuss the report. He said he was
"confident" in the measures put forward by the ROC. Council members
of the International Association of
Athletics Federations (IAAF) on
Friday voted 22-1 in favour of Russia being banned. As it stands, Russian athletes may not enter international competitions, including the
World Athletic Series and Rio
Olympics, which begin on 5 August
next year. Russia will also not be entitled to host the 2016 World Race
Walking Cup in Cheboksary and the
2016 World Junior Championships
in Kazan. "We are confident that the
initiatives being proposed by the
ROC, with the responsible international organisations - Wada and the
IAAF - will ensure compliance as
soon as possible in order to provide
participation of the clean Russian
athletes at the Olympic Games,"
said IOC president Bach.

The Mercedes F1 team also claimed a prize

Tennis dominated the 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards. Roger
Federer won sportsman of the year and comeback of the year, while
Serena Williams was named sportswoman of the year.
Roger Federer was named the Laureus Sportsman of the Year for the
fifth time at the Monaco award ceremony on Tuesday. The Swiss veteran was also honored as enjoying
the comeback of the year, having
become the oldest world number 1
in tennisʼ history, reclaiming the top
spot in the menʼs game 14 years after he first occupied it. "This means
the world to me, thank you so, so
much," Federer said in his acceptance speech, also praising the Lau-

reus Sport for Good Foundation for
helping to inspire his own philanthropic work. Serena Williams,
meanwhile,
was
named
Sportswoman of the Year, having
claimed her 23rd Grand Slam singles title and surpassed German ace
Steffi Graf just in time to give birth
to her first child, Alexis Olympia
Ohanian Jr, later in 2017. Williams
has not been able to return to the
court quite as quickly as she had
hoped since giving birth.

Ronaldo helps Real Madrid brush off Paris SaintGermain
Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring as Real Madrid cast aside a disappointing Paris Saint-Germain
side to reach the Champions
League quarterfinals.
They werewithout Neymar,they may
well soon be without Unai Emery and
Paris Saint-Germain will remain without a Champions League trophy after a
tepid surrender from the French underachievers on Tuesday night. The first

half was high on intensity but only offered real quality in flashes. Alphonse
Areola kept PSG in the game early with
an excellent reflex stop from a closerange Sergio Ramos effort, before
Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema
both spurned decent opportunities.
Cristiano Ronaldo spent much of the
opening period protesting various perceived injustices but got involved in a
more positive fashion after the break.